Glenn Beck, Radical Hit Man for the Tea Partiers, Is Breeding Potential Violence

[babylonsister]

Glenn Beck, Radical Hit Man for the Tea Partiers, Is Breeding Potential Violence

I wish this were just a bad joke, but Beck isn't messing around -- he's painting bull's-eyes on the backs of progressives.

Les Leopold
March 1, 2010



Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy rode to power in the late 1940s by claiming the government was riddled with Communists bent on destroying our way of life. Many Americans, worried about the Cold War and our nuclear-armed adversaries, found his fear-mongering credible. Institutions large and small purged themselves of anyone suspected of having been a member or even a sympathizer of the Communist Party. It didn’t matter if the suspicions were based on anything real, and even if they were, if the dalliance had happened 20 years earlier.

The FBI fanned the flames by collecting dossiers on tens of thousands of Americans and then privately leaking damaging information to employers. Blacklists were common. Due process and free speech were violated repeatedly and careers were destroyed. It was one of the darkest periods of our history. McCarthy went one step too far when he claimed the Army was coddling scores of communists. The televised Army-McCarthy hearings finally brought him down. He was censured by the Senate and died in a drunken stupor. But McCarthyism — virulent red-baiting — lived on for many more years.

Can we expect a replay?

Glenn Beck, a recovering alcoholic, is much more affable. His personal story of picking up the pieces of his shattered life is hard to ignore and seems utterly genuine. All of which could make him even more dangerous than McCarthy.

Beck knows it’s very hard to effectively red-bait Americans, especially since the fall of the Soviet Union and since “Red” China became the world’s most dynamic capitalist economy. Railing about Cuba and Venezuela won’t cut it. So he’s building a better mousetrap.

He’s going after progressives, whom he claims are a “cancer” in our society. Sure, conservatives have been attacking liberals for over a generation, and liberals have been getting more and more embarrassed about the label. But I don’t recall anyone else of Beck’s prominence claiming that progressivism is a cancerous growth on the body politic. Even Joe McCarthy didn’t stoop that low.

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[saltpoint]

1. Next we will learn from Beck that progressives are "a dagger aimed at

the heart" of God's Own America. O wait somebody already used that phrase...

Recommended.

And good morning.

:hi:

[babylonsister]

3. Hello, saltpoint!

:fistbump: Good morning, backacha!

[geckosfeet]

2. Won't they be surprised when the bullseys shoot back.

[zeemike]

4. "Intimidation...if you are good at it you don't have to fight"

That was a saying I have seen among the radical right...And that is what Beck wants to tap into...if nut cases start to do violent things it will scare us into doing things their way.
K&R

[StClone]

5. Beck has no other purpose

Then to inflame the insane or make the easily cow tipped topple over to la la land. Look if these tools don't believe in Climate Change, or that Obama is an American citizen and not a Nazi than they are clay in the hands of a Jester.

[zeemike]

6. Well put n/t

[ShamelessHussy]

7. one nit

Progressives have been articulating sound positions, for decades, right up to this very day, however... the M$M so effectively controls this country's dialog, it doesn't get through... and when it does, it is instantly attacked by most M$M thought manufactures.

the question really is, how do we get a MSG out when the M$M and congress, are again us?

the internet sure, but right now it is so diffuse, and fast paced, that it is less effective than the constant repetition of the meme by the M$M thought police.

:shrug:

[classysassy]

8. In a democratic society

the Becks of this world would be held accountable for their hurtful lies,but we no longer live in a democratic country our democracy was on life support until Bush and Chaney killed it.Now we are all at the mercy of the masters of industry.

[kristopher]

9. Ever listen to Savage?

Vile trash spewing hate merchant has been polluting the ether for a long, long time with the same theme. Beckerhead is just a continuation and escalation in that no one would let Savage in front of a TV audience because he is so overt.

[Doctor_J]

10. We could change the dialog pretty easily

if Beck and a fwe others were to be on the receiving end of some of the intimidation, the dynamic would change quickly. OTOH, if we continue to take no retribution, it will just get worse. Personally I think we would be a much better country if, a week after Limpballs called Chelsea the "white house dog", he'd been found rolled up in a rug. But as the rhetoric has ratcheted up over the last 18 years, we continue to cower. We need to either do something about it or stop complaining.

[The Wizard]

11. Glenn BecKKK

is part of the corporate elite's plan to subjugate the working class.
Since BecKKK makes good money deceiving the rubes among us, maybe it's time for BecKKK to get his just desserts.
When the jerk off BecKKK appears in public he should be pelted with rotten produce and bags of shit.